Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts have sent chills through the community, hurting the city’s car washes.

Ms. Bass, a critic of President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in response to immigration protests in Los Angeles, said the scenes of migrants getting detained by armed, masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in unmarked cars have pushed some immigrants into the shadows.

“For the average citizen, it looks like it’s a violent kidnapping,” Ms. Bass, a Democrat, said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “They don’t identify themselves, and furthermore … how on earth do they know that they’re a threat when they’re just chasing random people through parking lots at Home Depots, going to car washes and rounding up people.”

“It’s difficult to get your car washed in Los Angeles now, because most of the car washes, the employees won’t come to work out of fear that a raid will take place,” she said.

Mr. Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has sparked fierce blowback from Ms. Bass and other Democrats across the country, who have focused some of their criticism on the nonviolent migrants swept up in the enforcement efforts.

Ms. Bass also pushed back against immigration officials who say ICE agents are wearing masks because they are afraid of retaliation.

“The masked men are not from Los Angeles, and so how their families could be retaliated against?” she said. “And then what is that to say to local law enforcement, the Los Angeles Police Department, none of whom are ever masked, who always identify themselves and even hand someone a business card.

“So that makes absolutely no sense at all,” Ms. Bass said.

• Seth McLaughlin can be reached at smclaughlin@washingtontimes.com.